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  • "...a Jersey girl, through and through..." - official video of Patti Scialfa's NJ HoF induction

    October 31, 2023 Below is The New Jersey Hall of Fame's Facebook reel of official pro-shot video highlights from last Sunday night's 15th Annual Induction Ceremony, including - beginning at the 11:44 mark - complete video of Patti Scialfa's induction (her second induction, officially, as we reported previously,) with Bruce Springsteen's full induction speech followed by Scialfa's Hall of Fame bio-video and her full acceptance speech. Immediately after all of that is the evening's concluding musical number. The house band performed the Joe Cocker arrangement of The Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends," eventually joined by Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Van Zandt (who was there to induct Sopranos creator David Chase,) and... I can't believe I see... fellow Hall of Famer Tony Orlando singing right along with them! Our friend Jay Lustig at NJArts.net also has posted transcriptions of both Bruce's and Patti's speeches. Click here to read them, and click here to read Jay's transcription of Stevie Van Zandt's induction speech for David Chase.

  • Back in Europe's Arms Again: 22 new European dates announced for Bruce Springsteen's 2024 tour

    October 31, 2023 Bruce Springsteen has just announced 22 tour-dates for his 2024 return to Europe with the E Street Band. They are as follows: May 5 – Cardiff, Wales @ Principality Stadium (On-sale: Friday, Nov. 3 at 10am*) May 9 – Belfast, Northern Ireland @ Boucher Road (On-sale: Monday, Nov. 6 at 8am*) May 12 – Kilkenny, Ireland @ Nowlan Park (On-sale: Monday, Nov. 6 at 8am*) May 16 – Cork, Ireland @ Páirc Uí Chaoimh (On-sale: Monday, Nov. 6 at 8am*) May 19 – Dublin, Ireland @ Croke Park (On-sale: Monday, Nov. 6 at 8am*) May 22 – Sunderland, England @ Stadium of Light (On-sale Friday, Nov. 3 at 10am*) May 25 – Marseille, France @ Orange Vélodrome (On-sale Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 10am*) May 28 – Prague, Czech Republic @ Airport Letnany (On-sale Friday, Nov. 3 at 10am*) June 1 – Milan, Italy @ San Siro Stadium (On-sale Monday, Nov. 6 at 12pm*) June 3 – Milan, Italy @ San Siro Stadium (On-sale Monday, Nov. 6 at 12pm*) June 12 – Madrid, Spain @ Cívitas Metropolitano (On-sale Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 10am*) June 14 – Madrid, Spain @ Cívitas Metropolitano (On-sale Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 10am*) June 20 – Barcelona, Spain @ Estadi Olímpic (On-sale Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 10am*) June 27 – Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Goffertpark (On-sale Friday, Nov. 3 at 9am*) July 2 – Werchter, Belgium @ Werchter Park (On-sale Friday, Nov. 3 at 10am*) July 5 – Hannover, Germany @ Heinz von Heiden Arena (On-sale Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 10am*) July 9 – Odense, Denmark @ Dyrskuepladsen (On-sale Thursday, Nov. 2 at 10am*) July 12 – Helsinki, Finland @ Olympic Stadium (On-sale Monday, Nov. 6 at 11am*) July 15 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Friends Arena (On-sale Friday, Nov. 3 at 10am*) July 18 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Friends Arena (On-sale Friday, Nov. 3 at 10am*) July 21 – Bergen, Norway @ Dokken (On-sale Monday, Nov. 6 at 10am*) July 25 – London, England @ Wembley Stadium connected by EE (On-sale Friday, Nov. 3 at 10am*) *All on-sale times are local time For further information, including links to purchase tickets online, please click here to visit the "Tour" page at Bruce Springsteen's official website.

  • You CAN go back... Patti Scialfa to receive her second NJ Hall of Fame induction this Sunday

    October 27, 2023 Congratulations to "The First Lady of Love," Ms. Patti Scialfa, who will be inducted again into The New Jersey Hall of Fame this Sunday night. She first was inducted in 2012 as a member of the E Street Band, when the entire band got inducted. On Sunday she will join fellow E Streeters Stevie Van Zandt (who was re-inducted in 2017) and Max Weinberg (who was re-inducted in 2022) on the extra-short-list of twice-inducted E Street Band members. Scialfa recently spoke with Chris Jordan from The Asbury Park Press about her upcoming induction. “I’m super-flattered,” she told Jordan. “You look at the list of inductees and it’s quite illustrious, so you're going, 'Oh my gosh!' I’m a little overwhelmed with imposter syndrome right now.” Patti also explained why she was not part of the band lineup during most of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's 2023 tour, which led to some speculation and concern among fans. “I didn’t feel as needed in a way because there were a lot of musicians on stage,” she said, while also noting that she'll be on stage again when the tour resumes in 2024. “I did the first couple of shows, and as I saw how it was all rolling, I thought, 'This is good. This is completely intact. There’s not much room for me to add anything special.' And the main thing was I have a record that I couldn’t have finished when Bruce was home because he’s in the studio all the time. So I took that opportunity to do my record." The new record, her fourth album, will be released next year, as well. The time away from touring also allowed her to spend some extra time with her first grandchild, Lily Harper, the daughter of Bruce's and Patti's son Sam and his wife, Alex Reph. Click here to read Chris Jordan's Asbury Park Press article "Patti Scialfa talks NJ Hall of Fame induction, performing with Springsteen, E Street Band" in its entirety. And congrats again to the red-headed, rumble-doll Hall of Famer.

  • Happy Birthday, Garry Tallent...From '74 to 74! (with a special "BossBassBday" offer for readers)

    October 27, 2023 Happy 74th Birthday to "the foundation of The E Street Nation, The Tennessee Terror..." bassist extraordinaire Mr. Garry W. Tallent. And special thanks to Nicki Germaine for providing us with the beautiful images above for our "From '74 to 74" photo-montage birthday tribute to Garry. We also want to thank both Nicki Germaine and Garry Tallent for arranging a special "BossBassBday" signed-item offer for our readers. See all of the details below. The black-and-white 1974 image above on the left is, of course, from Nicki's excellent limited-edition photo-book Springsteen: Liberty Hall. This book, published late last year, is a stunning visual record of Bruce Springsteen and the (not yet officially named as such) E Street Band's first-ever gigs in Texas, at Houston's Liberty Hall in March of 1974, during the relatively brief period when Ernest "Boom" Carter was the band's drummer, before both Carter and keyboardist David Sancious left the band to pursue together a jazz-fusion path with bassist Gerald Carboy in their band Tone. In addition to full-page high-quality presentations of Germaine's beautiful black-and-white and color photography, the book contains insightful, moving essays by Bruce Springsteen, Robert Santelli (Executive Director of The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music,) Garry Tallent, and Nicki Germaine. Check out this cool, rockin' little promo-video for the book, with music by Garry Tallent: And if you don't yet own a copy, or if you'd like to purchase a copy for someone else as a gift (especially with the holiday gift-giving season approaching,) we have a special Letters To You Garry's-Birthday signed-item offer for you, courtesy of Nicki Germaine and Garry Tallent themselves. You can email info@springsteenlibertyhall.com with this subject-line: "BossBassBday" That will let Nicki Germaine and her team know that you're a Letters To You reader interested in a Nicki-Germaine-AND-Garry-Tallent-autographed copy of the book ($65 plus shipping and handling) and/or a Nicki-Germaine-AND-Garry-Tallent-autographed 8x10 high-quality archival pigment print on cotton rag paper (see image below, $85 plus shipping and handling.) In the body of your email message, please specify how many of which item you want, and provide your Paypal or Venmo information for invoicing/billing purposes, along with your mailing address. Thanks again to Nicki - AND Garry - for arranging this special offer for Letters To You readers. And of course Happy Birthday - and many, many more - to "Boss Bass Man" Garry Tallent!

  • "...I'm building me a new home..." - BSACAM officially announces new-building/theater plans

    October 18, 2023 Above, Bruce Springsteen shares a laugh with old pals Carl "Tinker" West (left) and Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez (right) at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ earlier today. He was there for The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music's official announcement of its plans for constructing a new 30,000-square-foot building to house the Archives, the Center for American Music, related exhibition galleries, and a 230-seat, state-of-the-art theater, to be located on Monmouth University's campus, with an anticipated Spring 2026 ribbon-cutting ceremony. Click here to read the official announcement. And stay tuned for our Letters To You full-length report on today's announcement and related information, accompanied by additional photos from New Jersey's own Mark Krajnak, who took the beautiful shot above.

  • A double-shot "Shout"-out to the legacy of the late, great Rudolph Isley

    October 13, 2023 Here are two Springsteen covers of two classic Isley Brothers recordings strongly associated with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-inducted - and for many years New-Jersey-based - group's founding member Rudolph Isley, who died yesterday at 84: First up is "Shout," which Rudolph co-wrote with his brothers O'Kelly Isley, Jr. and Ronald Isley. In 1959, this extremely influential and extra-long Black-gospel-derived classic had to be issued by The Isley Brothers as a double-sided, two-part vinyl single. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's epic covers of "Shout" became a standard part of their encores on the Wrecking Ball Tour, High Hopes Tour, and The River Tour 2016-17. Here's the pro-shot/pro-recorded version of "Shout" from the April 6, 2014 NCAA March Madness Music Festival, broadcast live from Dallas, TX: And of course there's no Isley Brothers recording more influential on the music of Bruce Springsteen than their 1962 version of "Twist and Shout," which was the first hit version. "Twist and Shout" also was the first rock-and-roll song that Bruce ever learned to play on guitar. While Rudolph played no role in writing "Twist and Shout," it was his and O'Kelly Isley's background singing, particularly on producer/songwriter Bert Berns' newly arranged ascending "aaah, aahh..." bridge, that made the Isleys' version so memorable, influential, and virtually immortal, especially as it was their version on which The Beatles would base their now-equally-classic version. As Paul McCartney once rhetorically asked onstage. "Where would we have been without [The Isley Brothers?] ...In Liverpool; that's where would have been! And we'd have stayed there!" Here's Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's New Year's Eve 1975 performance of "Twist and Shout," clearly modeled at least as much on the Isleys' version as The Beatles'. Rest in peace, Rudolph Isley, and thank you for so much great music. May it all play on forever... - Special thanks to Lisa Iannucci

  • Happy Birthday, Charlie Giordano, keyboardist, accordionist, and... WWII flying ace?!?!

    October 13, 2023 Happy Birthday to the E Street Band's (and The Seeger Sessions Band's) great keyboardist and accordionist, Charlie Giordano. And here's a fun little Flashback Friday Birthday Fact about Charlie: Beginning in 1982 and continuing through the early 1990s, Giordano played keyboards in Pat Benatar's band. In addition to working with Benatar in the studio and on the road, Charlie appeared in the music-video for Benatar's 1982 hit version of "Shadows Of The Night." Benatar, her husband/collaborator/bandmate Neil Giraldo, and Giordano played World-War-II fighter pilots on a Nazis-fighting mission. Actors Bill Paxton and Judge Reinhold had small parts in the music-video, as well. Here are two screenshots of our hero "Cigar-Chompin' Charlie" in action, and you can watch the complete official music-video below. Happy Birthday and many, many more, Charlie! Thanks for helping to keep our skies safe, and our Springsteen concerts rockin'. Keep up the good work, Ace!

  • Rescheduled Canadian dates announced for 2024, starting w/ a Halloween visit from The Jersey Devil

    ...and ending with a Vancouver gig on Stevie Van Zandt's birthday! October 13, 2023 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s postponed Canadian tour dates have been rescheduled and announced for 2024: Oct. 31, 2024 – Montreal, Quebec @ Centre Bell (rescheduled from Nov. 20, 2023) Nov. 3, 2024 – Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena (rescheduled from Nov. 14, 2023) Nov. 6, 2024 – Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena (rescheduled from Nov. 16, 2023) Nov. 9, 2024 – Ottawa, Ontario @ Canadian Tire Centre (rescheduled from Nov. 18, 2023) Nov. 13, 2024 – Winnipeg, Manitoba @ Canada Life Centre (rescheduled from Nov. 10, 2023) Nov. 16, 2024 – Calgary, Alberta @ Scotiabank Saddledome (rescheduled from Nov. 8, 2023) Nov. 19, 2024 – Edmonton, Alberta @ Rogers Place (rescheduled from Nov. 6, 2023) Nov. 22, 2024 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ Rogers Arena (rescheduled from Nov. 3, 2023) All tickets for the postponed performances remain valid for the newly announced dates. Information about each individual show, including details regarding refunds, is available through Ticketmaster.com. Rescheduled dates for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s shows will take place in 2024 at their originally scheduled venues. For all officially updated touring information, please connect with the "Tour" page at Bruce Springsteen's official website.

  • I can't be late; I got a (rescheduled) date with all that Heaven will allow...in 2024

    October 6, 2023 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's postponed U.S. tour dates have been rescheduled and announced for 2024: March 19 - Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center (rescheduled from Nov. 30, 2023) March 25 - San Diego, CA @ Pechanga Arena (rescheduled from Dec. 2, 2023) March 28 - San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center (rescheduled from Dec. 10, 2023) March 31 - San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center (rescheduled from Dec. 12, 2023) April 4 - Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum (rescheduled from Dec. 4, 2023) April 7 - Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum (rescheduled from Dec. 6, 2023) April 12 - Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena (rescheduled from Sept. 16, 2023) April 15 - Albany, NY @ MVP Arena (rescheduled from Sept. 19, 2023) April 18 - Syracuse, NY @ JMA Wireless Dome (rescheduled from Sept. 7, 2023) April 21 - Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena (rescheduled from Sept. 21, 2023) Aug. 15 - Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena (rescheduled from (Sept. 12, 2023) Aug. 18 - Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena (rescheduled from Sept. 14, 2023) Aug. 21 - Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park (rescheduled from Aug. 16, 2023) Aug. 23 - Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park (rescheduled from Aug. 18, 2023) Sept. 7 - Washington, DC @ Nationals Park (rescheduled from Sept. 29, 2023) Sept. 13 - Baltimore, MD @ Oriole Park at Camden Yards (rescheduled from Sept. 9, 2023) All tickets for the postponed performances remain valid for the newly announced dates. Information about each individual show, including details regarding refunds, is available through the official ticketing company for the specific date. Rescheduled dates for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's shows in Canada will be announced next week, all taking place in 2024 at their originally scheduled venues. For all officially updated touring information, please connect with the "Tour" page at Bruce Springsteen's official website.

  • Kickin' Out The Jams, Big Time: Dave Marsh's Later Writing Finally Gets The Anthology It Deserves

    September 28, 2023 Last month Simon & Schuster published a new anthology of Dave Marsh's writing entitled Kick Out The Jams: Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing. It is highly recommended reading for Springsteen fans, as is the book to which Kick Out The Jams very much serves as a sequel: 1985's Random House anthology Fortunate Son: The Best of Dave Marsh, now out of print and somewhat difficult to find. (And no, unfortunately Fortunate Son remains officially unavailable to read in e-book form, despite Amazon continuing to claim otherwise.) Both books contain much significant Springsteen-related material, properly placing Bruce's work in the context of its importance within the larger spectrum of popular music. Dave Marsh is well-known, of course, to several generations of Springsteen fans as the author of two essential Springsteen biographies that later were collected as one large, enhanced volume entitled Two Hearts: The Definitive Biography, 1972-2003. The original 1979 edition of Dave's initial Springsteen bio, Born To Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story, set the template for pretty much every possible approach to writing about Springsteen and his career that would follow, as it included not only facts and critical analysis mixed with a great collection of photos, but also closed with an appendix that included listings of all known songs that Bruce had written by that point, all songs written by others that Springsteen had covered in concert, and all known live-performance dates from 1972 through 1978. Marsh wrote about Springsteen's career with the benefit of an insider's perspective. Dave was a close friend and colleague of music-writer-turned-producer-and-longtime-Springsteen-manager Jon Landau. (Marsh edited Landau's famous 1974 "I saw rock and roll future" essay.) He also is married to former longtime Springsteen co-manager Barbara Carr. Yet his books, articles, and commentary on Springsteen always have offered far more than just so much inside baseball. Dave always wrote and spoke from the not-necessarily-contradictory perspective of a music-critic who also was a bona-fide fan of the music, and stayed focused on the bigger picture of the meaning and importance to be found in what Bruce and his collaborators were doing, as well as how the audience was affected and responded. In later years, Marsh went on to write a third book focused on Springsteen: the highly recommended coffee-table book Bruce Springsteen On Tour: 1968-2005, published by Bloomsbury in 2006 and, though now officially out of print, still available via many booksellers. Around that same time, he served as a key programming-team member and on-air personality in launching, sustaining, and expanding E Street Radio. Dave recently retired, but in his long career that stretched from the late 1960s through the first two decades of the twenty-first century, he has written and spoken passionately and brilliantly about many more aspects of music and culture than just the work of Bruce Springsteen. (The mere listing of Marsh's books at the beginning of the Kick Out The Jams anthology is staggering in and of itself.) In fact, the Kick Out The Jams anthology makes it clearer than ever why Dave Marsh should become widely recognized as one of our greatest and most insightful writers on popular music and the roles it has played - and can continue to play - in reflecting and supporting our struggles for a saner, safer, and more equitable planet. Accompanying the arrival of the new Kick Out The Jams anthology is a free, live online event happening this coming weekend entitled Kick Out The Jams: Music Writing Like Our Lives Depend On It. Music-writer and scholar Lauren Onkey, who wrote the introduction to Kick Out The Jams, will lead a conversation with the anthology's co-editors, Daniel Wolff and Danny Alexander, and other special guests. The conversation, accompanied by some musical performances, will be centered around the work of Dave Marsh and how it fits into our larger collective history, looking back and moving forward. [NOTE: You can click here to watch an archived video of this online event.] In recognition and celebration of the publication of this major new anthology of Dave Marsh's writing, and this weekend's in-depth online exploration of its continued importance, here below is MUCH more on Marsh from some well-known folks, including some of Letters To You's contributors and friends. As Dave's longtime Detroit brethren in The MC5 famously exclaimed, "Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!" “I connected to Dave because I knew he felt about music the way I felt about it. It was life-sustaining... It was central to your existence.” - Bruce Springsteen -excerpted from Danny’s essay “’Kick Out the Jams’ and the Debt I Owe,” the full version of which you can read at Danny’s Take ‘Em As They Come blog by clicking here. A MARSH MEMORY FROM E STREET RADIO AND SIRIUS/XM PERSONALITY/PRODUCER JIM ROTOLO, WHO WAS DAVE MARSH’S SOLE PRODUCER AND REGULAR ON-AIR COMPANION FOR HIS ENTIRE SIRIUS/XM RUN: In 2004, I was a [radio] producer. I was working for a different company at the time, and I’d been dying to get to Sirius Radio. Steve Leeds [former Vice-President of Talent and Industry Affairs at the then-fledgling satellite-radio company] had told Dave that he should be on the radio, with his legacy of interviews, writing, and journalism. So they gave Dave a show [Kick Out The Jams with Dave Marsh,] and by chance, the channel director at the time put us together. And of course I already knew of Dave; I remember reading some of his articles and his reviews. I remember being upset with him because he gave the second Black Crowes album a bad review. But along the way, I’ve always found it so amazing how he always could see and show people how music has such a profound effect on everything around us: society, culture, why we are the way we are. I’m looking at the first piece in the anthology, where he linked The New Deal to Elvis and rock-and-roll. Who does that?! Being with Dave has been the best music-history class you could ever possibly have, and I’ve learned so much about culture and society and people, through music and meeting all of these great musicians and fellow writers along the way. I’m blown away by the education. You couldn’t put a price on what I was taught just being around Dave, sitting there having lunch with him, the stories and the conversation, and the way he looks at different things. And below you can watch a special promo-video created for the Kick Out The Jams anthology, featuring a few familiar friends of Dave; edited by Samuel Shapiro, with music by Lorenzo Wolff: DAVE MARSH'S DREAM A world where everybody has a place to live and nobody has to stay up at night trying to figure out how to pay for it. Same with food. Same with education. A world where health care is dispensed rationally, not to the highest bidder. A world where everyone has some kind of productive work, everybody shares in the scut work at some level and nobody capable has to or gets to not have a job. A world where being child-centered is something more than rhetoric, where no child is left behind because no child is pushed forward by circumstances of birth. A world where decisions about important things (not just who's going to decide about the important things) are made by a broad, educated consensus. A world where a major goal is to keep technology, resources and the environment in balance. A world where everybody is free to exhibit their differences so long as the aim is not harming others. A world where the consequences of misbehavior are the same for everybody—and so are the incentives for misbehavior. A world where creativity is nurtured, inquiry is supported and encouraged, and rules are made to be broken but only with care. A world where there is peace, and when there can't be, nobody makes a profit or gets to bully others as a result of it. This is a world that would require tremendous gains in education; rather than the liberal “nanny state” it requires the utmost in personal accountability: a world where the government serves but doesn't control. A world where freedom is more than an abstraction. Do I believe there are ways to accomplish this? Absolutely. Every bit of it, and as I say, more that I can’t even imagine right now. Because with freedom, as with everything else, quantity changes quality. Do I think that this stuff is easily realizable? From the top down, sort of--meaning, I think we could almost overnight solve the problems of homelessness, hunger and lack of education and training. I think it would take a great deal more time before peace could be achieved—for one thing, the real capitalists, the guys that own the guys that loaned your restaurant owner the money to start his joint, would rather die. (I think.) For another, we all think in ways that are pointlessly competitive, uncooperative, selfish in all the wrong ways. ALL of us do this, to some degree, and really, it can hardly be helped—we have never lived in a world where a lot of advantage didn't accrue to competitiveness and selfishness didn't confer great advantages. For a third, we need to develop our sense of each other as worthy of trust and respect. Andrew Vachss wrote a book about child abuse that has my favorite title, I think ever, for anything. It is called Another Chance to Get It Right. What Andrew means is, every child is another chance to get it right, to raise a human free of the burdens predatory adults bring with them. But you know, we humans as a species are children for an extremely long time—far longer than any other animal on Earth. It may well be that we are always children, in some respects. And that is a good thing. Because the quality that, all children, except for those seriously impaired, possess is the ability to learn. In fact, the quality that almost all children possess before this ruthless world begins its extremely strenuous effort to dissuade them is the DESIRE to learn. As adults, we lose that quality at our peril. Because we lose the chance to get OURSELVES right. I'd die to create a world where that chance came home more often. But I'd rather live for it. - Email to Stratlist online group, 8/15/03

  • Now on our YouTube channel: the official promo video for Dave Marsh's KICK OUT THE JAMS anthology

    October 11, 2023 We at Letters To You are honored to have our YouTube channel serve as the YouTube platform for this official promo video. (You also can watch it above in its embedded form.) It was created for the recent publication of Dave Marsh's new anthology Kick Out The Jams: Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing (Simon & Schuster, August 2023.) The video features comments from (in order of appearance) Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Wayne Kramer, Stevie Van Zandt, Greg Tate, Ann Powers, Nona Hendryx, and Marsha Music. It was edited by Samuel Shapiro, with music by Lorenzo Wolff. Dave recently retired, but in his long career that stretched from the late 1960s through the first two decades of the twenty-first century, he has written and spoken passionately and brilliantly about so many important aspects of music and culture, including three major books on the work of Bruce Springsteen. (The mere listing of Marsh's books at the beginning of the Kick Out The Jams anthology is staggering in and of itself.) In fact, the Kick Out The Jams anthology makes it clearer than ever why Dave Marsh should become widely recognized as one of our greatest and most insightful writers on popular music and the roles it has played - and can continue to play - in reflecting and supporting our struggles for a saner, safer, and more equitable planet. For more info, please click here to read our website's lengthy September 2023 feature on Dave Marsh and the new Kick Out The Jams anthology.

  • Next week, Bruce goes Rogue... and Legend and Merchant, too, as FROM MY HOME TO YOURS returns!

    October 6, 2023 Okay, class, it's time to talk some primordial E Street history. Before Dr. Zoom & The Sonic Boom. Before Steel Mill. Before Child. Before Earth. Before the glory days of The Castiles, even, there were The Legend, The Merchants, and The Rogues ("Freehold version," noted Bruce Springsteen parenthetically in his Born to Run autobiography, "not to be confused with the later Shore version consisting of actual playing, singing musicians.") Next week, Bruce Springsteen will return to E Street Radio with his first new episode of From My Home To Yours in two years. His special guests will be longtime friends and former bandmates from his very early bands in New Jersey. Joining Bruce will be Craig Caprioni, Mike Domanski, Donnie Powell, and Mike Wilson (who also went on to serve as Freehold, NJ's mayor, years after his teenage-rock-band phase.) Bruce and his guests will share stories and memories from playing in their local rock-and-roll scene, circa 1964-68. They also will discuss their musical influences, and play recordings of the songs they learned to cover via great records by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Dave Clark Five, and more. Should be very educational... and a helluva lotta fun, to boot! Next week's brand-new episode of From My Home To Yours will premiere exclusively on SiriusXM Channel 20 on Monday, October 9 at 10am ET. You also can catch replayed airings (again exclusively on SiriusXM Channel 20) on the following dates at the following times: Tuesday, October 10 at 4pm ET Wednesday, October 11 at 8am ET Thursday, October 12 at 6pm ET Friday, October 13 at 9am ET Saturday, October 14 at 5pm ET Sunday, October 15 at 3pm ET SiriusXM subscribers also will be able to listen on-demand/online via the SiriusXM app. Special thanks to Vinny Usuriello at E Street Radio

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